On July 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> (bbdb 2.32)
>
> Can someone advise on this perplexing problem: I load up my entire
> bbdb (want to browse through and clean it up a bit) by running bbdb
> with a regex of "." or just hitting return. It then hangs on loading
> the bbdb database. I can ^g out of that, then I then have trouble
> deleting individual records with delete-current-field-or-record - it
> asks for confirmation, I give it, and everything stops. If I ^g out of
> it the field does then disappear.
>
> I tracked it down (I think) as far as bbdb-list-hook, which runs
> bbdb-fontify-buffer. If I comment out the relevant calls to run-hooks,
> problem fixed.
>
> Is this normal behavior? Possible factor: have over 1000 entires in my
> bbdb, is that just too much for it to handle? Should I be setting
> bbdb-list-hooks somewhere in my startup files?
If you're running GNU Emacs, then it's not hung, it's just
fontifying. (to be said in storekeeper owner from Dead Parrot
sketch...). XEmacs seems to be much, much faster at doing the
fontification. Leave it running, go have a coffee, and see if it's
done when you come back.
Waider.
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